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Offense sells tickets, defense wins games, rebounding wins championships.

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Pat Summitt
Age: 64 †
Born: 1952
Born: June 14
Died: 2016
Died: June 28
Basketball Coach
Basketball Player
Clarksville
Tennessee
Patricia Sue Summitt
Patricia Sue Head
Patricia Sue Pat Summitt
Patricia Susan Summitt
Basketball
Rebounding
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Championships
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Tickets
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Championship
Offense
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Defense

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Hard work breeds self-respect.
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Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.
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Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper.
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A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.
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My parents taught me a long time ago that you win in life with people, and that's important, because if you hang with winners, you stand a great chance of being a winner.
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There is always someone better than you. Whatever it is that you do for a living, chances are, you will run into a situation in which you are not as talented as the person next to you. That's when being a competitor can make a difference in your fortunes.
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I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.
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Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
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Losing strengthens you. It reveals your weaknesses so you can fix them
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Winners are not born, they are self-made.
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Attitude is a choice. What you think you can do, whether positive or negative, confident or scared, will most likely happen.
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When you choose to be a competitor you choose to be a survivor. When you choose to compete, you make the conscious decision to find out what your real limits are, not just what you think they are.
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I learned so much from Sue about the Xs and Os of the game of basketball.
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Teamwork doesn't come naturally. It must be taught.
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I really felt like we had to have a go to player.
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I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.
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I don't give out compliments easily.
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You can't have any quit in you if you want to be successful.
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There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts.
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Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.
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